Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority

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Also known as EGYPTIAN ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY

The Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA), established in 1955, leads Egypt's national research in peaceful nuclear science. It runs four research centres, including the Nuclear Research Center, and two research reactors: ET-RR-1, commissioned in 1961, and ET-RR-2, a 22 MW multipurpose reactor at Inshas built by Argentina's INVAP. In fusion, the IAEA World Survey of Fusion Devices (2022) lists it as operator of EGYPTOR, a small tokamak used to test diagnostics and wall-cleaning discharge techniques for larger tokamaks.

Sector: Fusion
Role: Government programme, Operator

It is the operator of record for ETRR-2 (operating), ETRR-1 (suspended) and EGYPTOR (operating).

Design values

Design values for devices operated by Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority. These are what a machine was built to do, not results.
Device	Parameter	Value	Unit	Status
EGYPTOR	Major radius	0.3	m	design valueclaimed
EGYPTOR	Minor radius	0.1	m	design valueclaimed
EGYPTOR	On-axis magnetic field	1.2	T	design valueclaimed
EGYPTOR	Plasma current	0.05	MA	design valueclaimed
EGYPTOR	Plasma duration (nominal)	0.045	s	design valueclaimed
ETRR-1	Thermal capacity (rated)	2	MW	design valueclaimed
ETRR-2	Thermal capacity (rated)	22	MW	design valueclaimed

Devices

ETRR-2Water-cooledOperating1 figure on record ETRR-1Water-cooledSuspended1 figure on record EGYPTORTokamakOperating5 figures on record

Sources

World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022independent
Egyptian Atomic Energy Authorityaggregator